Silver and Metalwork
Reading Hallmarks on Old Silver
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
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Everything we have published, newest first. Buying guides, identification notes, and the arguments we have had with advice that gets repeated without being tested.
Silver and Metalwork
Pick up a piece of old English silver and turn it over, and you will usually find a row of tiny stamped symbols hidden along an...
Starting a Collection
Among period collectibles, few objects divide a room like an antique gaming machine.
Silver and Metalwork
The Victorian sporting revival produced a category of silverware that is distinctive, plentiful, and still relatively...
Starting a Collection
Serious collecting is not a sedentary pursuit. The image of the collector in a quiet study, surrounded by objects acquired...
Starting a Collection
Collectors who come to period automobilia from the furniture or silver side often underestimate how well-developed the field...
Care and Preservation
I spent five years working as a cabinet restorer before I moved into writing, and one of the odd things about that job was how...